Always a tad too breezy today, with the strength of the wind overnight seemingly having put the block on a lot of routine migration. What did drop at the Bill included by way of variety 3 Pied Flycatchers and 2 each of Grasshopper Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher; another Pied Flycatcher was Thumb Lane and the lingering Marsh Harrier ducked about between Barleycrates Lane and the Bill. The first Great Shearwater of the autumn was a perhaps expected highlight from the sea at the Bill where it and most of the other passing seabirds remained frustratingly distant in the clear conditions; Manx and Balearic Shearwaters numbered in the low dozens each but 4 Arctic Skuas were the only other birds of note offshore.
